Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything Quotes

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can't have both.

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.

The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.

Love won't kill you.-Carla

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.

Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.

Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.